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The Benevolent Love Bomb

The term “love bomb” has an iffy pedigree, an association with cults and the recruitment of love-starved loners.

I went on the offensive and love-bombed him. Sparkly sparkle charm quarks pinging out of my eyes, gosh he was the nicest man I had met all day ping ping, I would be so grateful for any help [...]

Blind Dates Grow Up

My husband and I are both … hmm … how shall I put this? Let’s go with finely tuned and move on.
We’re also products of different cultures. (I’ve often thought of charging admission to some of our entertaining conversations: the optimistic, anything-is-possible American (me) exchanging views with the pessimistic Cold-War-era German from West Berlin.)
To cut [...]

Real Adventures with Imaginary Maps

Oh, maps … oops. Sorry, I had to stop and wipe the drool off my keyboard. If you want to hypnotize me or calm me down, just shove a map in front of my face. My eyes will glaze, I’ll acquire a foolish grin, and my hand will reach involuntarily toward the map.
And if the [...]

Digital Art Programs by Kevin

In my constant quest for creativity with a wow-factor, I followed a Flickr photo search to the discovery of Kevin, a man of inspiring creativity, humility, and generosity.
Among other things, Kevin created a couple of digital art freeware programs – VEXER (left picture) and Agony (right picture). I’ve played around some with VEXER, which I [...]

Creativity Prompt | 50

What’s your excuse?

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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s recently updated (book and video)
Creativity Prompts Compendium for tools to spark your genius.
Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 34 ~ A Forgiving Tale

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